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Robert Frost: Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening

I have read many poems so far, but personally this one is my favorite: Robert Frost's Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evning:

Whose woods these are I think I know His house is in the village thoughHe will not see me stopping hereTo watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queerTo stop without a farmhouse nearBetween the woods and the frozen lakeThe darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shakeTo ask if there is some mistake.The only other sound's the sweepOf easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark and deepBut I have promises to keepAnd miles to go before I sleepAnd miles to go before I sleep.

"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" is an acknowledged masterpiece in short poetry, and one of Frost's best works. The rhyming scheme has that rhythmical beauty in it, (rhyming scheme: aaba, bbcb, ccdc, dddd), and it always gives me a sense of serenity- alone in the woods, the white snow falling all around... And I guess there are many ways to interpret this poem- I have read many comments on this-some people simply see a lone traveler taking a break with his horse; some people see a despaired old man wanting to finish his life but is stopped from doing so....
Apart from this one, I also love his other poem "The Road Not Taken"... It was actually once in our textbook, and I still can't forget it...